Howto install sK1, a powerful alternative for Illustrator on Ubuntu

Igor, the icon king of Phatch, asked me if I could get sk1 to work on Ubuntu Gutsy. After playing around I found a way. Try this on your own risk.

I never heard about sk1 and looked it up on the website:http://sk1project.org/

Why sk1project?

We think that sK1 is a powerful illustration program for the Linux platform that can substitute professional proprietary software like CorelDRAW or Adobe Illustrator and we hope the program and its derivatives will be helpful for you.

About sK1 vector graphics editor

sK1 is an open source vector graphics editor similar to CorelDRAW, Adobe Illustrator, or Freehand.First of all sK1 is oriented for PostScript processing.The major sK1 features:

5) Start sk1Press Alt+F2 and type "sk1" at the terminal and sk1 is up and running! You can create a menu entry with alacarta or a desktop launcher with the command "sk1". I have not tested how well it works.

13 comments:

Excuse me, I don't know where I can report this, but in the page http://www.sk1project.org/modules.php?name=Products&product=sk1 the link to tk8.5_8.5.0-3_i386.deb is wrong (here in the blog it's Ok).Cheers.

Hi Igor,I thought too that sK1 is not a KDE application, but when I installed it without kdebase-bin it complained that kdialog was not installed when I wanted to open a file.Is that solved with the version you posted on the site?Stani

that is solved even in your installed version :) Unfortunately, there is no GUI dialog for preferences (this will be fixed soon), but you can change open/save dialog type in app/config/configurator.py file. Just find a line which contains "kdialog, zenity" words. For alternative DE application can uses modified Tk dialog.

that is solved even in your installed version :) Unfortunately, there is no GUI dialog for preferences (this will be fixed soon), but you can change open/save dialog type in app/config/configurator.py file. Just find a line which contains "kdialog, zenity" words. For alternative DE application can uses modified Tk dialog.

Good to know. In that case you could try to find out if zenity or kdialog are installed on the system and call the one which exists as a default option. (eg. 'which zenity' will return the path to zenity)